On 27 August 2015 at 23:20, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:13:19AM -0700, Peter Geoghegan wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Alvaro Herrera > <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > > Maybe there's a reasonable way to measure releases (my 8.0 is bigger > > than your 9.1!), but I don't think this is it. > > > I agree with the sentiment, but I don't think that anyone actually > thinks of it that way. Most people tend to think of a release in terms > of the big, exciting features, or the smaller features that happened > to scratch their particular itch.
I agree. I think the count tells us how focused we are in working on a few big things or many small things, e.g. when we don't have many big features in a major release, the count tends to be high as we clean up previously-released big features.
Anything where Hot Standby == {one line changes in default settings} has been distilled too far to draw any meaningful conclusions. They simply reflect the editing style in use at that time, which has changed over time.
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